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4UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE. i

CAROLINE C. NICHOLS, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

MANUFAGTURE 0F ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 5,867, dated October 1f?, 1848.

To all whom z'may concern Be it known that I, CAROLINE C. NICHOLS, of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Artificial-F lower Work; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully. described and represented in the following speciication and accompanying drawings, letters,'tigures, and references thereof.

My improvement is particularly applicable to the fabrication of artificial roses or articles resembling the same. For this purpose, I take what is usually termed floss silk, and wind it around a round or other proper shaped rod or stick, in a helix or screw form, and sov that the turns may be very close together. This being done, I next draw the rod or stick out ofthe silk so wound upon it and attenor press down the helix of silk. The band or helix so .pre-- pared I connect by meansof gum tragacanth or other proper material to the upper' sur-r face of a thin circular piece of silk cloth pasteboard or other suitable substitute as seen in Figures 1 and 2 of" the drawings, wherein a denotes the circular piece of pasteboard, silk or other substance and b the flattened helix of silk, cemented to it,-

around or just within its circumference or outer edge. V

Fig. 1 denotes atop view of one sectionof a layer of a vflower prepared in the above described manner. Fig. 2, is a cross section of the same. Fig. 3 exhibits a transverse section of the ower completed, and Fig. 4, is a. perspective View of the same, l

another as seen at a, b, c, al, &c., in Fig. V3,

making thereby the corolla of the flower.

Next I make several more of such layers 'i I confine them by means of cement and a l stem or curved wire e, which I pass through the central part of the mass. The said wire is to have a silk tuft f to represent the pistil or central part of the ilower, made upon its end. The corolla vis confined against the pistil by a piece of green paper cloth, or other proper material lah, cemented to the stem, and bottom piece a, and made to rep- `i resent the calyx.

InL the formation of the corolla, I make use of floss silk of such color or colors as fancy may dictate, or as it may be necessary Ito use to represent the variouscolors of a rose, dahlia, or other flower, to be imitated.

vWhat I claim as my invention is- The aforedescribed improved manner of 'manufacturing an artificial flower or the" corolla thereof, viz: the making the same of helix of floss silk, combined together and with circular bases or pieces of cloth or pasteboard, substantially as labove described.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my signature this second day of 4October A. D.184:7.

B. W. WHEELER, BENJAMIN T, EAMES. 

